Stabbing at Speakers Corner
A refugee from Turkey was today stabbed at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London.
Hatun Tash, a regular speaker at London’s Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park was today stabbed in the middle of the Corner in broad daylight. On Sunday 25 July 2021, the Corner had been drenched in heavy rain for most of the day, the numbers present were therefore much lower than would normally be expected on a July Sunday afternoon. Whilst small groups huddled together trying to keep dry under the trees, at around 3:30pm an individual lunged at Hatun, punching and stabbing her with a knife. The male attacker, wearing a large black hooded robe (thobe) immediately ran away dropping and leaving the knife at the scene.
A police car that had been parked at the perimeter of the Corner, seeing the commotion drove to chase the attacker as he tried to leave the park down one of the pathways leaving the Corner towards Marble Arch. It is not yet known whether the police managed to catch him before he escaped from the park.
A large number of police, including armed officers, arrived at the Corner within ten minutes. With bloodied wounds on her face and hand, Hatun was helped to an ambulance by police. The attacker’s knife was taken by the police following regulars at the Corner keeping watch over it.
